Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 23: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to upgrade and extend the sewerage and waste water treatment system in Mountmellick, County Laois. [30312/11]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The Water Services Investment Programme 2010 – 2012, a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas Library, provides for the development of a comprehensive range of new water services infrastructure in County Laois. Phase 1 of the Mountmellick Sewerage Scheme was under construction at the time of publication of the programme, while further phases of the scheme are included among the schemes to advance through planning during the life of the programme.

Phase 1 of the scheme, which covered the upgrade of the wastewater treatment plant and pumping station, is now complete. Laois County Council has submitted an Environmental Impact Statement for the further phases of this scheme to An Bórd Pleanála. When a decision has been made in this regard, my Department will complete its examination of the Preliminary Report for phases 2 and 3 of the Mountmellick Sewerage Scheme which has been submitted by the Council.